Paolo Fedeli - Momenti di regata

PAOLO FEDELI was born in Tuscany in 1957. He attended the Art Institute of Siena, earning the diploma of Master in Art. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among others, Ukraine, France, Russia, Spain, Rome and many others. He is present in several Permanent Exhibitions. His works are in many public and private collections. His activity has been reviewed in national and international magazines and newspapers. He has participated in the major national group art exhibitions, obtaining important citations and critical recognitions. From 1979 to today he has won no fewer than one hundred seventy-six First Prizes in painting contests. Paolo Fedeli is the arcane cantor of nature.

SAYING ABOUT HIM:

Paolo Fedeli is a painter of absolute elegance, a narrator of improbable and unknowable happenings, of questions without answers. His wandering between Tuscany and the anonymous metropolis of a contemporary West, where all architectural panoramas resemble each other in the absurdity of globalization, may also surprise us. As, indeed, the changing of his language. Yet we see a subtle connection between the farmhouses, the hills, the clear skies, the night lights, the streets glossed with damp, the smudged atmospheres of smog: there are never living beings, as if people, daily life, work, love, hatred, competition, wakefulness, sleep had eluded the artist’s imagination, who wished to exclude from his poetics any reference to the social or, better, to verismo. Probably the French poet Paul Verlaine would have agreed with him, with due distance between words and colors:
It is also necessary that you do not choose
your words without some error:
nothing is dearer than the gray song
in which the uncertain merges with the precise.
Go as far as possible from murderous wit
from cruel spirit and from impure laughter;
which make the eyes of the blue weep!
Take eloquence and twist its neck!
Thus is the key to reading for Paolo Fedeli: self-referentiality and the surprising have been replaced with the vagueness of the uncertain. The rhetoric of the everyday and the clamor of dissonant voices have been replaced with the suspended silence of absence. The depiction of the recognizable has been replaced with the sublimation of visual poetry.

Paolo Levi